ELA8+Looking+Back

toc __**flagged for omission 2013 - 2014***************************************__ =Topic= Students will continue to reflect on settings, but, this time, it will be from a historical perspective. Students will focus on how authors' perspectives might produce differing accounts of historical events. A research project, multimedia presentation, and informative essay are highlights of the unit.
 * Looking Back on America **

=**Common Core Standards**= //**Students will:**//
 * RL.8.9** Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types for myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
 * RI.8.3** Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
 * RI.8.9** Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
 * W.8.7** Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
 * SL.8.5** Integrate multi-media and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
 * L.8.3** Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

=**Suggested Student Objectives**=
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 * Compare and contrast story characters, plots, themes, and settings from stories about American history;
 * Analyze how historical fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths or traditional stories;
 * Determine the author's point of view in two texts about the same topic and discuss the effect it has on a work;
 * Conduct an in-depth research project on a historical event of choice, followed by a multimedia report that includes insights from historical fiction.

= Terminology/ Academic Vocabulary =

= = = = =**Suggested Additional Readings**= //Elijah of Buxton// by Christopher Paul Curtis //My Brother Sam is Dead// by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier //The Witch of Blackbird Pond// by Elizabeth George Speare from //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer// by Mark Twain
 * Novels**


 * Short Stories**

from //Paul Revere's Ride// by David Hackett Fisher from //The Boys' War: Confederate Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War// by Jim Murphy from //Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott// by Russell Freedman from //The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750-1800// by Milton Meltzer "The Woman in the Snow" by Patricia McKissack

“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “I, Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou "Sit Ins" and "Sorrow Home" by Margaret Walker
 * Poems**

Preamble to the United States Constitution First Amendment to the United States Constitution 1812, February 3: Adams to Jefferson (John Adams) //Author Says Revere's Ride Not a Solitary One// from "All Things Considered", Nat'l Public Radio, April 18, 1994 //Traveling Long Road to Freedom, One Step at a Time// by Donovan Webster (magazine article)
 * Informational Texts**

from //George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War// by Thomas B. Allen
 * Biographies**

“The Midnight Ride” by Grant Wood “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze “Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbell “F-11” by James Rosenquist “Retroactive” by Robert Rauschenberg from the film //Pearl Harbor,// directed by Michael Bay from the film //Letters from Iwo Jima,//directed by Clint Eastwood
 * Art, Music, and Media**

=**Resource Links**= “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I, Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

Preamble to the United States Constitution

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

“The Midnight Ride” – Grant Wood

“Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze

“Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbell: Interactive Painting

Declaration of Independence

“F-11” James Rosenquist: Video Clip about Painting

“F-11” James Rosenquist

“Retroactive” Robert Rauschenberg

=**Activities**= Literary Graphic Organizer Informational text Response Informative Explanatory Writing Poetry Response Research, Informative/Explanatory Wring and Multi-media Presentation Art/Class Discussion Word Study Grammar and Usage Vocabulary Word Wall

=**Assessments**=
 * Informative/Explanatory Writing on the essential question, "How does learning history through literature differ from learning through informational text?"
 * Poetry Response
 * Research, Informative/Explanatory Writing and Multimedia Presentation
 * Grammar and Usage Check

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